teleprinter
Americannoun
noun
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US name: teletypewriter. a telegraph apparatus consisting of a keyboard transmitter, which converts a typed message into coded pulses for transmission along a wire or cable, and a printing receiver, which converts incoming signals and prints out the message See also telex radioteletype
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a network of such devices, formerly used for communicating information, etc
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a similar device used for direct input/output of data into a computer at a distant location
Etymology
Origin of teleprinter
First recorded in 1925–30; Tele(type) + printer
Example Sentences
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He jumped on the truck when the company received word, via teleprinter, of a working fire on Southern Boulevard in the Bronx.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2020
He had programmed a teleprinter, sitting on the floor next to me, to deliver love letters at one, three, and five.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 14, 2017
When volunteers took the teleprinter back from Essex to the museum, they found it was stamped with the official wartime number from the German army that matches the one on the machine from Norway.
From BBC ● May 29, 2016
This project took the form of a parlor game: A and B, a man and a woman, communicate with an “interrogator,” C, by some intermediary such as a messenger or a teleprinter.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2013
What gets to the public is photoprint, out of a teleprinter.
From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam
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